Teacher Evaluation Considerations
Many schools began the year using remote, hybrid, or blended models of instruction for the first time this year. These new educational settings caused schools and districts to rethink educator evaluations.
Many schools began the year using remote, hybrid, or blended models of instruction for the first time this year. These new educational settings caused schools and districts to rethink educator evaluations.
Ohio Department of Education
The Ohio Department of Education (ODE) provided information about the impact of education settings on teacher evaluations. Additionally, ODE released a brief statement regarding the positive efforts of Ohio students and educators in complying with recommended health practices and, in particular, mask-wearing guidelines.
Promoting student attendance in online classes
The standard school model is shelved for now because of the pandemic, but one constant is attendance. Students still must show up — virtually — to their online classes. Showing up for school is as important as ever, even if the systems have changed.
Does your virtual school include attendance tracking plans?
It has been said many times: 2020 has been an extraordinary year. Given the multitude of unique challenges that schools have met since the beginning of the year, it is sometimes difficult to focus on those laws that were in place before March 2020 and still affect school board members and staff.
Education funding proposal
Sens. Peggy Lehner (R-Kettering) and Vernon Sykes (D-Akron) are expected to introduce companion legislation for House Bill (HB) 305 in the coming weeks. The companion bill will be the substitute version of HB 305 that Reps. John Patterson (D-Jefferson) and Gary Scherer (R-Circleville) will also release in the coming weeks.
At its Oct. 2 meeting, the Ohio Ethics Commission issued formal Advisory Opinion No.
Governor activity
Gov. Mike DeWine signed House Bill 17. The bill allows an enhanced homestead exemption for surviving spouses of public safety personnel killed in the line of duty. Click here to read an analysis of the bill.
The Black Caucus is inviting all school board members to participate in a book study of Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools.
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
by Monique W. Morris
Governor activity
Gov. Mike DeWine announced that he has authorized a study that will focus on K-12 students who are quarantined due to meeting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s definition of close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19. The study is in response to school district superintendents expressing concerns about the number of students being quarantined.